said by Goliath13:It seems to me that if we can get an Asterisk set up going, we would have the most flexibility to go with whichever provider we want. I'm just not super confident in my ability to set it up nicely. How hard would this be to setup for a noob?
It's very easy:
The 5-Minute PBX: Its Incredible PBX 11 Virtual Machine for VirtualBox.